GIS Publications E-zine July 2002

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A GIS Development E-zine
July 2002

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Publications covered in this issue

EOM June, 2002
Geo Times July, 2002
Geo World July, 2002
GIS@development July, 2002
GPS World June, 2002
Mercator's World July-August, 2002
National Geographic August, 2002
Point of Beginning July, 2002
Professional Surveyor June, 2002
GIS Vision July, 2002
GIM International July, 2002
MP2K 2002
Asian Journal of Geoinformatics June, 2002
PE&RS July, 2002
Survey Review July, 2002
URISA Journal vol 14, no 1, 2002

EOM : June 2002

Marrying Photogrammetry and LIDAR
Craig Molander, Scott Merritt and Angelo Corrubia
A New Method for Classifying Remote Sensing Imagery: Ternary Multispectral Analysis
Clyde H. Spencer
BLM & Forest Service Launch GeoCommunicator Web Site
Leslie Cone
Onshore Versus Offshore: Who Should Get the Data Conversion Goods?
Bob Britton

TOC : June

Geo Times : July 2002

Solid Earth
Earthquakes by Susan E. Hough * Volcanoes by Tobias Fischer * Geothermal Energy by Marnell Dickson * Structure and Tectonics by Mary Hubbard * Metamorphism by Michael Brown * Clay Science by Ray Frost * Geochemistry by Neil C. Sturchio
Water
Caves and Karst by Chris Groves * Hydrology by Venkat Lakshmi et al. * Hydrogeology by William Cunningham et al.
Resources
Geologic Mapping by Milt Wiltse * Economic Geology by Richard M. Tosdal * Petroleum Geology by William T. Drennen III * Coal by Leslie Ruppert et al.
Life through Time
Vertebrates by Donald R. Prothero * Invertebrates by Warren D. Allmon * Geoarchaeology by Chris Hill * Palynology by Fredrick J. Rich and Gordon D. Wood * Paleobotany by Melanie L. DeVore and Kathleen B. Pigg

TOC : July

Geo World : July 2002

Bioterrorism-- GIS Can Help Fight a New Threat
Michael Popovich, Reno Fiedler, Stefanie Fiedler and James Massee
Will GML Enable an Accessible Geo-Web?
Amielle Lake
The GeoData Alliance: A New Hope
Kevin P. Corbley
The "G" in GIS
Jerry Dobson
An Evil King Used Geography to Enslave the Congo

TOC : July

GIS@development : July 2002

Integrating exploration dataset in GIS using fuzzy inference modeling
Basab Mukhopadhyay, Niladri Hazra, M K Mukhopadhyay
The other part of the map
Bal Krishna
Policy development and capacity building for geo-information provision
Yola Georgiadou, Richard Groot
To share or not to share: Attitudes and mindsets vis-à-vis spatial data
Dr Uta Wehn de Montalvo

TOC : July

GPS World : June 2002

The View From Here — Cooperative Urges
Glen Gibbons
Today the "cooptitional" impulse appears ever more frequently in and among GPS-related enterprises — underscoring the need to be attuned to the particularities of customers, distribution channels, and operational requirements in diverse market segments.
Flying High
Susan F. Gomez
Mission-critical requirements for position, velocity, and attitude determination 210 miles above the Earth's surface led space engineers to install GPS antennas on the ISS in April, 2002. Here's how they met unique challenges on orbit.
GPS Inside – June 2002
CSI Wireless Connects with Earnings, Contract, New Products; Spirent Federal Chooses Engineer, Picks New Name; Swift ’n’ Low from Axiom; ESRI Enhances ArcPad6 for GPS; Korea, Qualcomm Locate Phones; Philips Positions in Car Radios; Thales Enters U.S. Marine Market; Trimble in Air, Cars, Buildings; Industry Bytes; People

TOC : June

Mercator's World : July-August 2002

Cartography for the "New" Cyclist
Robert B. Parry
Bicycling maps make a comeback
Map Maker on a Mission
Bill Warren
Father Kino and the myth of insular California
Northern Delights
Mel Mandell
Maps of Scandinavia and Norway on display
The Triumph of Geometry over Geography
Norman J.W. Thrower
Cadastal surveying in the United States

TOC : July-August

National Geographic : August 2002

Georgian Skull Find
Rick Gore
This 1.75-million-year-old skull from the republic of Georgia might have belonged to one of the first humans to leave Africa. And it doesn’t look anything like scientists thought it would.
Oceans of Plenty
Kennedy Warne
In the greatest shoal on Earth, cold and warm waters surge together off South Africa to create rich marine ecosystems and a billion sardines on the move.
Mount Fuji
Tracy Dahlby
Japan’s famous peak is: A) a serious volcano, B) the spiritual epicenter of a nation, or C) a tourism engine whose image is plastered on countless consumer goods? Answer: all of the above.
Henrietta Marie
Jennifer Steinberg
The oldest slave ship ever excavated, wrecked off Florida in 1700, is yielding a multitude of artifacts—and blood-curdling history.

TOC : August

Point of Beginning : July 2002

Allison’s Aftermath
William Meyer
LIDAR provides the silver lining for a storm cloud in Texas.
Web Exclusive: The Surveyor Detective
Joel Eis,Russell Nixon
Finding the site of the first play in English America.
The Business of Surveying
Thomas A. Liuzzo
Part 2: Contracts—“Assignments of risk.”
Fluid Challenges
Terry W. McHenry
How water boundaries differ from their upland counterparts.

TOC : July

Professional Surveyor : June 2002

Close-Range Photogrammetry and Next Generation Spacecraft
Richard S. Pappa
Photogrammetry is likely to play an important role in NASA efforts to achieve breakthroughs in mission capability with future gossamer structures.
Surveying In Alaska: Survey Barge on the Yukon, Part 3: Flat
Eric Stahlke
Discovering a town frozen in time and dealing with an elusive Grizzly bear are all part of surveying in the wilds of Alaska. Third in a five-part series.
GPS Basics: Static GPS: Part 4
Daniel J. Martin
Adjustments and reporting—including sample reports—make up the final phase of a static GPS campaign.
In Line with GIS: GIS and the Lewis & Clark Trail, Part 2
Rj Zimmer
An overview of websites and activities designed to make the history of this 200-year-old trail come alive.

TOC : June

GIS Vision : July 2002

New Application: GIS in the Horizontal Perspective
Jeff Thurston
K-12 GIS Education
David B. Davis
'EXplore India' Using GIS - An Overview
Anil B. Marali & Prasad R. Pandit
Anthropologist Builds Yucatan GIS to Unlock Secrets of Mayan Settlements
Kevin Corbley

TOC : July

GIM International : July 2002

Geo-ICT Technology Push versus Market Pull
Overview and Analysis of the Impact of Geo-ICT Developments
The OGC View on Web Services
A Framework for Web-based Geospatial Services
Towards Distributed Application of GIS Technology
The Shift from Stand-alone to Web and Mobile GIS Solutions
Cartography in Post-World War I Poland
The E. Romer Polish Cartographic Publishing House Past and Present
Co-ordination of Public Works via Internet
Saving Money and Preventing Complaints

TOC : July

MP2K

Geodesy: MapStuff Release version 0.9
Windsway Company is releasing some Geodesy oriented software as open souce code. This is not a complete application but rather a set of routines that you can use to build your own applications.

TOC

Asian Journal of Geoinformatics : June 2002

Monitoring of Sandstorm with GMS S-VISSR Data
Gin-Rong Liu, Tang-Huang Lin, Tsung-Hua Kuo and Shih-Jen Huang
Detection of Distribution of the 1998 Pyroclastic Flows at Merapi Volcano, Central Java, Indonesia using RADARSAT SAR Images
Katsuaki Koike, Makoto Omura, Masato Iguchi, Nahoko Matsunaga and Nobuhiro Tomiyama
Defining Biophysical Land Units in Mountainous Tropical Environments Using Remotely Sensed Information, Field Data and GIS
Serwan M.J. Baban and Kamaruzaman Wan Yusof
Assessment of Multi-temporal Radar Imagery in Mapping Land System for Rainfed Lowland Rice in Northeast Thailand
S. Kaojarern, J.P. Delsol, Thuy Le Toan and S.P. Kam

TOC : June

PE&RS : July 2002

3D Reconstruction Methods Based on the Rational Function Model
C. Vincent Tao and Yong Hu
Real Ikonos stereo pairs were employed to verify the applicability and the performance of the reconstruction methods.
Updating Solutions of the Rational Function Model Using Additional Control Information
Yong Hu and C. Vincent Tao
Two methods to address the issue of updating solutions of the rational function when new GCPs become available are proposed, the feasibilities of these two methods were validated, and their performances were evaluated.
Satellite Monitoring of Urban Spatial Growth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Xiaojun Yang
The evolution of Atlanta’s urban spatial form and landscape change from 1973 through 1999 has been examined by using a time series of satellite imagery data.
Using GIS to Assess and Manage the Conservation Reserve Program in Finney County, Kansas
J. Wu, M.D. Ransom, M.D. Nellis, G.J. Kluitenberg, H.L. Seyler, and B.C. Rundquist
A geographic information system was used to assess the impact of environmental factors on the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), determine certain CRP contracts for early release, and set priority areas for accepting new CRP bids for Finney County, Kansas.

TOC : July

Survey Review : July 2002

Evaluation of Ultra-High Degree Geopotential Models in Australia
K. Zhang, R. Deakin, N. Talbot and N. Edwards
Wicked Problems, Soft Systems and Cadastral Systems in Periods of Uncertainty
Michael Barry and Clarissa Fourie
Study of the Deformation of Koyna Dam using the Global Positioning System
Ankur Manake and Madhav N. Kulkarni
The use of the Two-Dimensional Spherical FFT for Quasi-Geoid Modelling in South Africa
Ameer Amod and Charles L Merry

TOC : July

URISA Journal : Vol 14, No.1

The Geographic Distribution of Soil Lead Concentration: Description and Concerns
Daniel A. Griffith
Lessons Learned from Case Studies on the Implementation of Geospatial Information Technologies
Claude Caron and Yvan Bedard
An Object-Oriented Approach for Modeling Urban Land-use Changes
Ale Raza and Wolfgang Kainz

TOC : Vol 14, No.1

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	GIS Publications A GIS Development E-zine July 2002
Archive: June 2002 May 2002 Apr 2002 Mar 2002 Feb 2002 Jan 2002 Dec 2001 Nov 2001 Oct 2001 Sept 2001 Comments
	Publications covered in this issue EOM June, 2002 Geo Times July, 2002 Geo World July, 2002 GIS@development July, 2002 GPS World June, 2002 Mercator's World July-August, 2002 National Geographic August, 2002 Point of Beginning July, 2002 Professional Surveyor June, 2002 GIS Vision July, 2002 GIM International July, 2002 MP2K 2002 Asian Journal of Geoinformatics June, 2002 PE&RS July, 2002 Survey Review July, 2002 URISA Journal vol 14, no 1, 2002
	EOM : June 2002
	Marrying Photogrammetry and LIDAR Craig Molander, Scott Merritt and Angelo Corrubia A New Method for Classifying Remote Sensing Imagery: Ternary Multispectral Analysis Clyde H. Spencer BLM & Forest Service Launch GeoCommunicator Web Site Leslie Cone Onshore Versus Offshore: Who Should Get the Data Conversion Goods? Bob Britton TOC : June
	Geo Times : July 2002
	Solid Earth Earthquakes by Susan E. Hough * Volcanoes by Tobias Fischer * Geothermal Energy by Marnell Dickson * Structure and Tectonics by Mary Hubbard * Metamorphism by Michael Brown * Clay Science by Ray Frost * Geochemistry by Neil C. Sturchio Water Caves and Karst by Chris Groves * Hydrology by Venkat Lakshmi et al. * Hydrogeology by William Cunningham et al. Resources Geologic Mapping by Milt Wiltse * Economic Geology by Richard M. Tosdal * Petroleum Geology by William T. Drennen III * Coal by Leslie Ruppert et al. Life through Time Vertebrates by Donald R. Prothero * Invertebrates by Warren D. Allmon * Geoarchaeology by Chris Hill * Palynology by Fredrick J. Rich and Gordon D. Wood * Paleobotany by Melanie L. DeVore and Kathleen B. Pigg TOC : July
	Geo World : July 2002
	Bioterrorism-- GIS Can Help Fight a New Threat Michael Popovich, Reno Fiedler, Stefanie Fiedler and James Massee Will GML Enable an Accessible Geo-Web? Amielle Lake The GeoData Alliance: A New Hope Kevin P. Corbley The "G" in GIS Jerry Dobson An Evil King Used Geography to Enslave the Congo TOC : July
	GIS@development : July 2002
	Integrating exploration dataset in GIS using fuzzy inference modeling Basab Mukhopadhyay, Niladri Hazra, M K Mukhopadhyay The other part of the map Bal Krishna Policy development and capacity building for geo-information provision Yola Georgiadou, Richard Groot To share or not to share: Attitudes and mindsets vis-à-vis spatial data Dr Uta Wehn de Montalvo TOC : July
	GPS World : June 2002
	The View From Here — Cooperative Urges Glen Gibbons Today the "cooptitional" impulse appears ever more frequently in and among GPS-related enterprises — underscoring the need to be attuned to the particularities of customers, distribution channels, and operational requirements in diverse market segments. Flying High Susan F. Gomez Mission-critical requirements for position, velocity, and attitude determination 210 miles above the Earth's surface led space engineers to install GPS antennas on the ISS in April, 2002. Here's how they met unique challenges on orbit. GPS Inside – June 2002 CSI Wireless Connects with Earnings, Contract, New Products; Spirent Federal Chooses Engineer, Picks New Name; Swift ’n’ Low from Axiom; ESRI Enhances ArcPad6 for GPS; Korea, Qualcomm Locate Phones; Philips Positions in Car Radios; Thales Enters U.S. Marine Market; Trimble in Air, Cars, Buildings; Industry Bytes; People TOC : June
	Mercator's World : July-August 2002
	Cartography for the "New" Cyclist Robert B. Parry Bicycling maps make a comeback Map Maker on a Mission Bill Warren Father Kino and the myth of insular California Northern Delights Mel Mandell Maps of Scandinavia and Norway on display The Triumph of Geometry over Geography Norman J.W. Thrower Cadastal surveying in the United States TOC : July-August
	National Geographic : August 2002
	Georgian Skull Find Rick Gore This 1.75-million-year-old skull from the republic of Georgia might have belonged to one of the first humans to leave Africa. And it doesn’t look anything like scientists thought it would. Oceans of Plenty Kennedy Warne In the greatest shoal on Earth, cold and warm waters surge together off South Africa to create rich marine ecosystems and a billion sardines on the move. Mount Fuji Tracy Dahlby Japan’s famous peak is: A) a serious volcano, B) the spiritual epicenter of a nation, or C) a tourism engine whose image is plastered on countless consumer goods? Answer: all of the above. Henrietta Marie Jennifer Steinberg The oldest slave ship ever excavated, wrecked off Florida in 1700, is yielding a multitude of artifacts—and blood-curdling history. TOC : August
	Point of Beginning : July 2002
	Allison’s Aftermath William Meyer LIDAR provides the silver lining for a storm cloud in Texas. Web Exclusive: The Surveyor Detective Joel Eis,Russell Nixon Finding the site of the first play in English America. The Business of Surveying Thomas A. Liuzzo Part 2: Contracts—“Assignments of risk.” Fluid Challenges Terry W. McHenry How water boundaries differ from their upland counterparts. TOC : July
	Professional Surveyor : June 2002
	Close-Range Photogrammetry and Next Generation Spacecraft Richard S. Pappa Photogrammetry is likely to play an important role in NASA efforts to achieve breakthroughs in mission capability with future gossamer structures. Surveying In Alaska: Survey Barge on the Yukon, Part 3: Flat Eric Stahlke Discovering a town frozen in time and dealing with an elusive Grizzly bear are all part of surveying in the wilds of Alaska. Third in a five-part series. GPS Basics: Static GPS: Part 4 Daniel J. Martin Adjustments and reporting—including sample reports—make up the final phase of a static GPS campaign. In Line with GIS: GIS and the Lewis & Clark Trail, Part 2 Rj Zimmer An overview of websites and activities designed to make the history of this 200-year-old trail come alive. TOC : June
	GIS Vision : July 2002
	New Application: GIS in the Horizontal Perspective Jeff Thurston K-12 GIS Education David B. Davis 'EXplore India' Using GIS - An Overview Anil B. Marali & Prasad R. Pandit Anthropologist Builds Yucatan GIS to Unlock Secrets of Mayan Settlements Kevin Corbley TOC : July
	GIM International : July 2002
	Geo-ICT Technology Push versus Market Pull Overview and Analysis of the Impact of Geo-ICT Developments The OGC View on Web Services A Framework for Web-based Geospatial Services Towards Distributed Application of GIS Technology The Shift from Stand-alone to Web and Mobile GIS Solutions Cartography in Post-World War I Poland The E. Romer Polish Cartographic Publishing House Past and Present Co-ordination of Public Works via Internet Saving Money and Preventing Complaints TOC : July
	MP2K
	Geodesy: MapStuff Release version 0.9 Windsway Company is releasing some Geodesy oriented software as open souce code. This is not a complete application but rather a set of routines that you can use to build your own applications. TOC
	Asian Journal of Geoinformatics : June 2002
	Monitoring of Sandstorm with GMS S-VISSR Data Gin-Rong Liu, Tang-Huang Lin, Tsung-Hua Kuo and Shih-Jen Huang Detection of Distribution of the 1998 Pyroclastic Flows at Merapi Volcano, Central Java, Indonesia using RADARSAT SAR Images Katsuaki Koike, Makoto Omura, Masato Iguchi, Nahoko Matsunaga and Nobuhiro Tomiyama Defining Biophysical Land Units in Mountainous Tropical Environments Using Remotely Sensed Information, Field Data and GIS Serwan M.J. Baban and Kamaruzaman Wan Yusof Assessment of Multi-temporal Radar Imagery in Mapping Land System for Rainfed Lowland Rice in Northeast Thailand S. Kaojarern, J.P. Delsol, Thuy Le Toan and S.P. Kam TOC : June
	PE&RS : July 2002
	3D Reconstruction Methods Based on the Rational Function Model C. Vincent Tao and Yong Hu Real Ikonos stereo pairs were employed to verify the applicability and the performance of the reconstruction methods. Updating Solutions of the Rational Function Model Using Additional Control Information Yong Hu and C. Vincent Tao Two methods to address the issue of updating solutions of the rational function when new GCPs become available are proposed, the feasibilities of these two methods were validated, and their performances were evaluated. Satellite Monitoring of Urban Spatial Growth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area Xiaojun Yang The evolution of Atlanta’s urban spatial form and landscape change from 1973 through 1999 has been examined by using a time series of satellite imagery data. Using GIS to Assess and Manage the Conservation Reserve Program in Finney County, Kansas J. Wu, M.D. Ransom, M.D. Nellis, G.J. Kluitenberg, H.L. Seyler, and B.C. Rundquist A geographic information system was used to assess the impact of environmental factors on the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), determine certain CRP contracts for early release, and set priority areas for accepting new CRP bids for Finney County, Kansas. TOC : July
	Survey Review : July 2002
	Evaluation of Ultra-High Degree Geopotential Models in Australia K. Zhang, R. Deakin, N. Talbot and N. Edwards Wicked Problems, Soft Systems and Cadastral Systems in Periods of Uncertainty Michael Barry and Clarissa Fourie Study of the Deformation of Koyna Dam using the Global Positioning System Ankur Manake and Madhav N. Kulkarni The use of the Two-Dimensional Spherical FFT for Quasi-Geoid Modelling in South Africa Ameer Amod and Charles L Merry TOC : July
	URISA Journal : Vol 14, No.1
	The Geographic Distribution of Soil Lead Concentration: Description and Concerns Daniel A. Griffith Lessons Learned from Case Studies on the Implementation of Geospatial Information Technologies Claude Caron and Yvan Bedard An Object-Oriented Approach for Modeling Urban Land-use Changes Ale Raza and Wolfgang Kainz TOC : Vol 14, No.1
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